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Family Business: An Interview with Mark Scott and Three Poems
No full textSerena Demichelis interviews poet Mark Scott and translates three of his poems, here available both in English and Italian
«The Cold Skin» by Albert Sánchez Piñol: an Ecocritical Reading
No full textIl presente articolo propone una lettura ecocritica del romanzo La pell freda (2002) di Albert Sánchez Piñol. Attraverso una suddivisione in sei sezioni, in cui si analizzeranno il paesaggio e le relazioni tra questo e i personaggi, si dimostrerà la tragicità del rapporto uomo-natura. La lettura in scala globale dell’isola del romanzo offrirà un parallelismo tra i comportamenti conflittuali dei personaggi e le azioni altrettanto violente e autodistruttive dell’umanità.The present article proposes an ecocritical reading of Albert Sánchez Piñol’s novel La pell freda (2002). Divided into six sections, the analysis of the landscape and its connection with the characters will demonstrate how tragic the relationship between man and nature is. The interpretation of the island on a global scale will provide a parallelism between the characters’ conflicting behaviours and the equally violent and self-destructive actions of humankind
Abandoning a Dog. The Becoming-Animal in Portuguese Literature of African Descent
No full textPara além de marcar a ligação com a filosofia e a metafísica ocidental, as relações assimétricas entre humanitas e animalitas estruturam e justificam o projeto (neo)colonial. Tendo em conta os destinos necropolíticos comuns de abandono aos quais são condenados animais e humanos vulneráveis, o artigo analisa as implicações políticas, éticas e ontológicas que emergem nas interações entre “humanos” e “animais” no alvo da teoria crítica e filosófica dos Animal Studies e no romance Maremoto, de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. Sob esta luz, a recente literatura portuguesa de autoria afrodescendente revela-se um movimento artístico que interroga a nação sobre o seu recente passado colonial, os seus legados traumáticos, a violência antropocêntrica e a complexidade da reparação histórica.Besides marking the connection between philosophy and western metaphysics, asymmetrical relations between humanitas and animalitas articulate and justify the (neo)colonial enterprise. By focusing on the common necropolitical destinies of abandonment to which specific animals and vulnerable humans are doomed, this article examines the political, ethical and ontological implications emerging from the interactions between “humans” and “animals” in the field of critical and philosophical theory of Animal Studies and in the novel Maremoto by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. In this light, Afro-descendant Portuguese literature becomes an artistic movement that interrogates the nation on its recent colonial past, its traumatic heritage, anthropocentric violence and the complexities of historical reparation
Reading German-Turkish Literature with Eco-Sensitivity? Selim Özdoğan’s Anatolian Descriptions of Nature as «Nature Writing»
No full textDieser Artikel untersucht literarische Darstellungen des menschlichen Verhältnisses zur Natur in der deutschtürkischen Literatur mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Selim Özdoğans Roman Die Tochter des Schmieds. Es wird gefragt, inwiefern die Naturdarstellungen in diesem Roman zur pastoralen Atmosphäre der türkischen Dorfliteratur passen und ob ökologische Reflexionen in den Werken deutschtürkischer Autoren das Spektrum des Europäischen/deutsch(sprachig)en Nature Writing erweitern könnten.The contribution examines the extent to which the representations of nature in Selim Özdoğan’s novel The Blacksmith’s Daughter match the pastoral atmosphere prevalent in Turkish village literature. It also investigates whether ecological reflections in the works of German-Turkish authors could broaden the spectrum of European/German Nature Writing
Thinking Landscapes, ed. by Dirk Michael Hennrich, Paulo Reyes, Artur Rozestraten, São Paulo 2023
No full textRecensione di: Dirk Michael Hennrich, Paulo Reyes, Artur Rozestraten (eds.), Thinking Landscapes, São Paulo 2023.Book Review of: Dirk Michael Hennrich, Paulo Reyes, Artur Rozestraten (eds.), Thinking Landscapes, São Paulo 2023
The Nova Kakhovka Dam: Destruction and Resilience in the Eyes of Ukrainian Poets
No full textA lyrical sylloge dedicated to the explosion of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine on 6th June 2023.Si presenta una silloge di liriche dedicate all’esplosione della diga di Nova Kakhovka in Ucraina il giorno 6 giugno 2023
П.А. Флоренский и Ф.М. Достоевский: необходимая антитеза
No full textFlorensky and Dostoevsky: A Necessary Antithesis
The philosopher and scientist Pavel A. Florensky (1882-1937) has always manifested a great deal of interest in literature and was himself the author of poems and biographical works. Among his literary tastes as well as in his personal formation, however, the novels of Dostoevsky – as he openly declared – “had never found a place”. In spite of all this, numerous quotations from Dostoevsky’s works occur in his philosophical writings and this presence reveals, as if it were in a negative way, a much more relevant meaning than the mere affirmation of his dislike. Dostoevsky seems to represent an “antithesis” to Florensky’s universe of thought, but precisely because of the way that universe is constructed it is a “necessary” antithesis. In this article, which examines the main Dostoevskian occurrences in Florensky’s writings, the ambivalent meaning of this relationship is explored. In many ways, it is a meaning that, extending far beyond a private matter of tastes, tendencies and poetics, finally reveals a universal question: the contradiction itself between the view of the world’s transcendent harmony and the perception of its immanent chaos.
Keywords: P. Florensky, F. Dostoevsky, N. Berdyaev, Orthodoxy, Religious Philosophy.
Аннотация. Философ и учёный Павел Александрович Флоренский (1882-1937) всегда проявлял большой интерес к литературе, более того, его перу принадлежит ряд стихов и биографических трудов. Однако произведения Ф.М. Достоевского «никогда не находили места» в его внутреннем мире, - так неоднократно заявлял сам Флоренский. Несмотря на это, в трудах мыслителя присутствуют многочисленные цитаты из произведений Достоевского, что говорит о чем-то большем, чем о простом неприятии идей писателя. Достоевский в творчестве Флоренского скорее играет роль негативной динамической силы. Русский писатель представляет собой "антитезу" селенной Флоренского, но именно в силу того, как устроена эта вселенная, он является "необходимой" антитезой. В данной статье рассматриваются наиболее важные упоминания имени Достоевского в произведениях Флоренского, исследуется амбивалентный смысл отношения двух мыслителей. Как мы увидим, этот смысл, выходя далеко за пределы частного вопроса вкусов, склонностей и поэтики, в конце концов раскрывает универсальную проблему: противоречие между видением трансцендентной гармонии мира и восприятием имманентно присущего ему хаоса.
Ключевые слова: П.А. Флоренский, Ф.М. Достоевский, Н.А. Бердяев, православие, религиозная философия
Dostoevsky’s ‘boulevard’ novel. The influence of the boulevard press on Devils
No full textBy the time Dostoevsky began work on Besy in early 1870 revolution was in the air. The Nechaev affair had shown how close Russian tensions had come to violence. War in Europe was imminent and within a year would lead to the overthrow of the French Second Empire and the Paris Commune. But, more insidiously, another revolution was taking place in front of Dostoevsky’s eyes – the revolution in the press. Across Europe, reader demographics were changing. Literacy was beginning to spread into urban factory workers, shopkeepers and merchants. Women were becoming important consumers of fiction and fashion. The provincial reader market was becoming increasingly relevant as distribution improved. As demographics changed, so did the product. The 1860s saw the introduction of a new format which was to revolutionise not just the shape of the product but its content as well – the boulevard newspaper. Launched in France in 1863 with Le Petit Journal, the format had been copied almost immediately in the Russian market by Afanasiev with Peterburgsky listok. In his novel Besy Dostoevsky uses a technique of ‘disconnectedness’, bringing together disparate elements of content and style which appear only loosely connected as its narrative emblem. Sensationalism and randomness and are both descriptors of the society Dostoevsky describes and hallmarks of the way in which he constructs the text.This chaotic appearance is a quite deliberate technique to create a narrative which resonated with multiple different audiences by borrowing the newspaper techniques of the faits divers.
Keywords: Devils; History of the Press; Boulevard Newspapers; Fait divers; Narratology
Until the End of the World. The Metamorphosis of the Environment in Christoph Ransmayr’s «Fallmeister»
No full textIl contributo affronta la questione del rapporto tra umanità e natura in Ransmayr, a partire da un romanzo recente dal titolo Der Fallmeister. Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten (2021). Al centro di questo scritto è infatti non solo la cascata come flusso di acqua, ma anche la caduta (Fall), che nel disegno distopico dell’autore coinvolge, stravolge, l’umanità. Per Ransmayr, l’identità individuale è inscindibilmente connessa alla partecipazione alla struttura originaria di un co-esserci. Per questo motivo la storia (della propria comunità, della propria città, del proprio stato, del proprio continente) non è solo dietro le quinte, ma è anche davanti ai nostri occhi. Ovvero: ci riguarda.This contribution addresses the question of the relationship between humanity and nature in Ransmayr’s works, starting with a recent novel entitled Der Fallmeister. Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten (2021). At the centre of this novel is in fact not only the waterfall as a flow of water, but also the fall (Fall) that in the author’s dystopian design involves, or rather disrupts, humanity. According to Ransmayr, individual identity is inseparably connected to participation in the original structure of a mit-Dasein. This is why history (of one’s own community, one’s own city, one’s own state, one’s own continent) is not only behind the scenes, but is also in front of our eyes and does concern us